During a speech about COVID vaccinations, President Biden made a mistake, referring to Kamala as “President Harris”. Meanwhile, 21 states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over the cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline.
In other news, tomorrow Poland will move into a new lockdown, which will last until April 9.
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Leave it to Maria Bartiromo to give it to us straight on what Biden’s massive tax hike will bring for Americans. She warns that this is not a good idea and that if Dems force this through Congress, they own it.
She mentions the Covid Relief Bill, a spending spree for Congress, and how Americans will foot the pork-filled bill.
Bartiromo lists the items that will get a tax hike, including the Capital Gains Tax that will jump from 20% to 39.6%… Ouch!
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21 States File Lawsuit Against Biden Over Keystone Pipeline Cancellation
Twenty-one states have filed a lawsuit against President Biden over his canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline, alleging that he overstepped his presidential authority.
The attorneys general argue the president exceeded his authority because of a provision in a 2011 tax law that required then-President Barack Obama to approve the pipeline within 60 days or issue a statement saying it was not of national interest. Obama at the time rejected the application, saying that he had not been provided enough time to make the decision, but allowed the company in charge of the pipeline to reapply, deferring the decision to his successor.
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75% of Voters Support Voter ID Laws — Something Democrats Are Determined to Eliminate
Voter ID laws are a given in countries around the world.
Presenting an ID is expected when you vote.
Because without voter ID people cheat.
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America Last: Ford Announces Plans to Move Plant to Mexico 2 Months After Biden Enters Office
Ford announced this week it plans to move a major project from northeast Ohio to Mexico.
Ford went back on its 2019 promise to invest $900 million in the Avon Lake plant.
What a difference two months make.
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As is the case in today’s world of low-brow “journalism,” every figure that enters the public eye tends to get their past social media posts combed over.
The Sheriff’s spokesman in Georgia who delivered the press briefings about the spa shootings in Atlanta had previously posted that China is responsible for the pandemic on Facebook, an allegation that mainstream media outlets paint as racist — making it the feature of several articles.
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Black Teens Burn Disabled White Man to Death — Woke Media Silent
Two black teens have been charged with assault and arson in connection to the brutal death of a mentally ill white man in Rochester, New York. The two reportedly sneaked into the home of the man on Friday afternoon, sprayed him with an ignitable fluid, and set him on fire until 70% of his body was covered in second and third-degree burns. The victim fought for his life for four days in a burn trauma unit before he passed.
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If we took the future of the nation seriously, we would end public schools tomorrow.
A friend who volunteers at a Sunday school in Harlem for low-income children called me the other day, greatly upset: She had been working with a pair of students who failed to learn the assigned reading, which was a short psalm or a prayer. She thought perhaps the fourth graders, a boy and a girl, weren’t applying themselves. The truth was much worse: The two children turned out to be illiterate.
Their public school teachers had passed them, grade by grade, into the fourth, and no one had ever taught them how to sound out words. Their teachers graded spelling tests and assignments — they knew they were passing kids who couldn’t read.
The two fourth graders didn’t understand words like “will” or “firm.” They couldn’t read them, and they didn’t know what they meant. Yet these children were intelligent. They were eager — touchingly, pathetically eager. And by the end of the hour with my friend they had made tangible progress. But what is one hour, compared with 35 hours every week in public school?
The New York City public school system spends $28,800 per student per year-more than anywhere else in the world. A brand-new public school teacher with a master’s degree and zero prior experience starts at $65,000 a year, plus benefits. And the children can’t read.
It’s little wonder that children become disaffected, bellicose — what we popularly call “troubled.” Little wonder that they turn to drugs and gangs and crime. When material isn’t taught well, and when the children can’t understand, they often blame themselves. They feel stupid, then resentful. Before long they’ve decided that education isn’t for them, and soon they’ll be lost forever — their potential to live happy, decent, productive, and socially healthy lives is destroyed. Their teachers and the school system are the destroyers.
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CNN Forced to Admit Gov. Ron Desantis’ Refusal to Lockdown Florida is “Paying Off”
CNN was forced to admit that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ refusal to impose strict lockdown measures and mask mandates is “paying off,” with the state recording fewer COVID-19 deaths per capita while the economy is booming.
Unlike states run by Democrat politicians, DeSantis consistently refused to impose harsh pandemic restrictions and has been pilloried for it by the media for the best part of a year.
However, compared to those states, which have recorded higher COVID deaths and face massive economic turmoil, Florida is in such a better position that even CNN has been forced to acknowledge it.
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Cumulus Media Has Chosen Rush Limbaugh’s Replacement
According to reports, conservative commentator Dan Bongino has agreed to termswith Cumulus Media and Westwood One to air his radio program in the 12-3 p.m. time slot previously held by legendary broadcaster Rush Limbaugh.
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De Blasio Says Cuomo Reopening NY for “Political Reasons” as More Women Come Forward
New York City has just announced that outdoor concerts can resume starting April 1 (the same day the New York Yankees will play their season opener against the Toronto Blue Jays), but the drumbeat of pressure facing Gov. Andrew Cuomo is continuing apace.
In the latest Cuomo-related headlines, his Democratic arch-rival, Mayor Bill de Blasio (who has repeatedly called on Cuomo to resign, and even accused him of getting in the way of saving lives) slammed Cuomo for lifting the state’s COVID-19 restrictions based on “political reasons”, not based on what’s actually best (or safest) for the people of New York.
Coming from another politician, de Blasio’s claim has something of a “pot-kettle” feel. Nonetheless, many have joked that Cuomo’s announcements about raising the capacity for indoor dining and announcing the timing of other rollbacks of COVID-related restrictions are part of a calculated strategy to try and distract from the twin scandals plaguing the governor.
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Fight Back: Virginia Restaurant Owner Scraps Mask Mandate, Will Fight for His Business in Court
A Fredericksburg, Virginia restaurant owner is ready to fight the Northam Administration in court after scrapping mask mandates in favor of face freedom for his customers and employees, and refusing to comply with a subsequent health department order to close his doors.
It took Matt Strickland, a Marine Corps veteran of the War on Terror, five years to build his business up from a food truck to a popular brick and mortar eatery. Now, after scrapping Governor Northam’s mask mandate and giving his employees and customers alike the freedom of choice, he is at risk of losing his hard work as he prepares to fight for his livelihood in court against his own government.
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Former President George W. Bush spoke with the Texas Tribune in partnership with this year’s SXSW Online Festival to push his new book on immigration, “Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants.”
In the interview, Bush said the January 6th protests left him “disgusted” and “sick to my stomach.”
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Gov. Desantis Announces Florida’s Curriculum Will “Expressly Exclude” Critical Race Theory (Video)
Ron DeSantis is one of the best governors in the country.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) is a true leader who led the way with a common sense approach to Covid guidelines and vaccinations and now he’s crushing the left’s Critical Race Theory.
Critical Race Theory, as Heritage Foundation fellow Christopher Rufo says is the “idea that the United States is a fundamentally racist country and that all of our institutions including the law, culture, business, the economy are all designed to maintain white supremacy. And the critical race theorists argue that all of these institutions are in a sense beyond reforming, they really need to be completely dismantled in order to liberate the oppressed people.”
Trump called Critical Race Theory “racist” and signed an executive order restricting ‘diversity training’ by the federal government.
Joe Biden reversed Trump’s executive order and brought back the Marxist, anti-white, anti-American, anti-Christian curriculum back to public schools.
Governor DeSantis announced Florida’s curriculum will “expressly exclude” Critical Race Theory.
“There’s no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money,” DeSantis said.
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Gunman Charged in Atlanta Shootings Says He Was Motivated by Sex Addiction
A white gunman was charged on Wednesday with killing eight people after he opened fire on three Atlanta-area massage parlors.
Robert Aaron Long, 21, traveled between three massage parlors in Georgia on Tuesday, killing eight in what has been the worst mass killing in the U.S. in nearly two years.
Long reportedly told police that his attack was not racially motivated and was instead prompted by what he claimed is a “sex addiction” and an attempt at removing sources of temptation.
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JetBlue, New York’s “Hometown Airline, “ Considers Joining Other Businesses and Fleeing to Florida
Though JetBlue airlines markets itself as “New York’s hometown airline,” having been founded in Queens in 1998, the company is considering moving from high-tax, high-regulation New York state to the freer business environment of Florida.
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Joe Biden Slips, Calls Kamala “President Harris” During COVID Speech (Video)
Joe Biden on Thursday delivered remarks on Covid-19 vaccinations and only 1,100 people tuned in to watch.
Once again, Biden’s handler Kamala Harris followed him out on the stage in her black pantsuit.
Biden read from a teleprompter for 10 minutes and still bungled his presser.
Joe Biden slipped and called Kamala Harris, “President Harris.”
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John Kerry Caught Flouting Airline Mask Rule While Flying First Class
Joe Biden’s ‘Climate Envoy’ John Kerry violated CDC mandates by removing his mask almost immediately after boarding a first class flight from Boston to DC.
The former Secretary of State didn’t even wait until the plane took off before removing his face covering in violation of both American Airlines’ policy and a CDC mandate requiring masks on flights.
As the Tennessee Star highlighted, Kerry literally let the mask slip as he began to read a book.
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Knights of Columbus Remove Satanic Graffiti From Outside D.C. Church
A D.C. Knights of Columbus chapter removed satanic graffiti from outside a parish on Capitol Hill this past Saturday.
On Saturday morning, Patrick Abbott, an officer in local Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle Council 11302 of the Knights of Columbus, received a text message from a fellow Knight. He was asking about an image that had appeared on the sidewalk outside of the church of St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill.
“I took one look at the photo and said it was Satanic graffiti,” said Abbott. “I offered to wash it up and headed out to clean it.”
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Wheaton College, a Christian college in Illinois, has temporarily removed a plaque commemorating a group of people who died while serving as missionaries because the plaque used the word “savage” to describe the indigenous tribe who killed them.
The plaque, which honors missionaries James Elliot and Ed McCully, reads: “For generations all strangers were killed by these savage Indians. After many days of patient preparation and devout prayer, the missionaries made the first friendly contact known to history with the Aucas.”
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Massachusetts: Muslim Biotech Researcher Bought 800 Castor Beans to Extract Ricin
The fact that Ishtiaq Ali Saaem bought so much ricin and “researched homemade tasteless poisons” doesn’t suggest any genuinely innocent intent. There is, however, no indication in any news report of what exactly he was planning, or whether or not he had any jihadist sentiments. Given the establishment media’s general determination to whitewash and obscure the motivations of jihad terrorists whenever possible, we may never know whether or not Ishtiaq Ali Saeem was one.
“Biotech researcher bought 800 castor beans to extract ricin, feds say,” by Kenneth Garger, New York Post, March 17, 2021 (thanks to Kevin).
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New Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexi McCammond Resigns Over Decade-Old Tweets
Teen Vogue’s new editor-in-chief, Alexi McCammond, has stepped down after facing backlash for tweets that she posted almost 10 years ago while she was a teenager.
“My past tweets have overshadowed the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issues that I care about — issues that Teen Vogue has worked tirelessly to share with the world — and so Condé Nast and I have decided to part ways,” McCammond wrote in a statement about her resignation. “I should not have tweeted what I did and I have taken full responsibility for that.”
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North Carolina’s largest school district has launched a campaign against “whiteness in educational spaces” and is encouraging teachers to subvert parents to push “antiracism” directly onto students without their consent.
The anti-white racism is taking place in the Wake County Public School System, which serves the greater Raleigh area.
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North Carolina Lawmakers Push for More Gun Rights in Religious Places
(The Center Square) — The North Carolina Senate will consider a bill that would allow state residents with concealed carry permits to legally carry guns at places of worship that share property with private schools.
It is legal for licensed handgun owners to carry in places of worship, but House Bill 134 would expand the right.
Concealed carry permit holders would be able to protect themselves during worship but not during school activities or other activities involving minors. It would not apply to public K-12 schools or on properties that ban guns.
The bill cleared the House, 72-44, last week and is assigned to the Committee On Rules and Operations of the Senate.
“We have real instances of evil coming into our churches to attack people of faith,” said Rep. Dean Arp, R-Union, who co-sponsored the bill. “Right now, concealed carry holders can carry in places of worship if it is authorized by the church. However, we have a group of churches that do not have that option because of their extended mission to help people in need by providing education opportunities.”
During debate over the bill last week, proponents recalled deadly attacks on Texas and South Carolina churches.
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In February Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a stand-down order for the next 60 days to allow each branch of the military time to discuss white supremacy and the threat of extremism throughout the US Military.
This weekend The Gateway Pundit received a copy of the US Navy’s discussion guide on extremism in its ranks.
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A professor at the University of Vermont (UVM) has responded to an online petition calling for his resignation over a video he made criticizing so-called “anti-racism” efforts at the campus. Prof. Aaron Kindsvatter’s definitive answer was a huge “no.”
The petition calling for his resignation was started by a student who founded an activism group called UVM Sisters of Color. As of Thursday morning, the petition, titled “Demand the Immediate Resignation of UVM Asst Prof Aaron Kindsvatter,” had more than 2,400 signatures.
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Smoking Gun Document: Crimson Contagion Shows Bill Gates Blueprint for “COVID” Launch
Alex Jones joins War Room to deliver breaking news about newly uncovered documents that reveal the globalist plot to enslave humanity with lockdowns and mask mandates.
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Union Warns Ohio Ford Employees That Company Intends to Move New Vehicle Construction to Mexico
United Auto Workers warned Ohio Ford employees that the automotive company plans to begin construction of a new vehicle in Mexico, according to a letter made public this week.
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Using Herd Immunity Excuse for Gene Therapy Vaccine on Kids
It’s Gene Therapy — Not a Vaccine
The COVID-19 vaccine really isn’t a vaccine in the medical definition of a vaccine. It’s more accurately an experimental gene therapy, of which the effectiveness and safety are far from proven. During the first six weeks the vaccine was available, more than 500 post-vaccination deaths and nearly 11,000 other adverse events were reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
According to Children’s Health Defense (CHD), professor Dolores J. Cahill, Ph.D., a molecular biologist and immunologist, “expects to see successive waves of adverse reactions to the experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) injections ranging from anaphylaxis and other allergic responses to autoimmunity, sepsis and organ failure.”
Considering that children are at extremely low risk from COVID-19, vaccination offers them far more risk than benefit, and parents may be understandably reluctant to volunteer their children to receive this experimental and unlicensed gene therapy. Public health officials have made it clear, however, that vaccination of children is expected. CHD reported:
“Already last April — when next to nothing was known about COVID’s epidemiology, and candidate vaccines had barely begun to be studied — Bill Gates set the stage for the pediatric push, declaring that the end goal is to make COVID-19 vaccines ‘part of the routine newborn immunization schedule.’“
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), also stated that 85% to 90% of the U.S. population, including children, will need to receive a COVID-19 vaccine before life can return to normal, and he suggested that first graders may be authorized to be vaccinated by September 2021.
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Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show Wednesday, former Clinton advisor Naomi Wolf warned that Democrats are aligned with big tech in an effort to ‘consolidate power’ by censoring and removing any opinions they disagree with.
The author spoke of how she has recently been suspended twice from Twitter, noting “I’ve been talking about all kinds of things for years on social media and have never had this problem until I talked to a conservative about how left and right should unite to save the Constitution.”
“It’s really a very kind of CCP [Chinese Communist Party] type of conditioning to kind of conform and watch our words,” Wolf urged, adding “It’s censorship.”
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Video: Ten House GOP Never-Trumpers Expected to Lose Seats After Impeachment Vote
As a refresher — here are the ten Anti-Trump RINOs who voted to impeach President Trump in January.
| 1. | House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) | |
| 2. | Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH) | |
| 3. | Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler (R-WA.) | |
| 4. | Rep. John Katko (R-NY) | |
| 5. | Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) | |
| 6. | Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) | |
| 7. | Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) | |
| 8. | Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) | |
| 9. | Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) | |
| 10. | Rep. David Valadao (R-CA) |
In late January already three of the anti-Trump RINOs already had primary opponents for the 2022 re-election.
And now a new report by One America News reveals the 10 RINOs are expecting to lose their seats after this session.
What great news!
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Visitors to California Theme Parks Told to Remain Silent on Roller Coasters to Stop COVID-19
Theme parks in California are set to re-open next month but visitors are being warned that they’re not allowed to sing, shout, scream or engage in heavy breathing while on rides.
Yes, really.
“The California Attractions and Parks Association (CAPA) advises in the new guidelines for its “Responsible Reopening Plan,” that theme park visitors should avoid activities that increase the spread of COVID-19, such as singing, shouting, heavy breathing and raising one’s voice,” reports People.
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Watch: U. Of Florida Students Support Boycotting Panda Express for ‘Cultural Appropriation’
Students at the University of Florida would support a boycott of restaurant Panda Express due to the “cultural appropriation” of its “Americanized” Chinese food, and panda logo. The students were interviewed outside of a Panda Express by a Campus Reform reporter, with some students adding that they had eaten at the establishment the same day.
Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson conducted a social experiment at the University of Florida, where she asked students if they would sign a petition boycotting Panda Express due to its “cultural appropriation.”
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YouTube Deletes Alex Jones Appearance on Popular Flagrant 2 Podcast
YouTube has removed the Alex Jones episode of Flagrant 2, a podcast hosted by the comedians Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, for “violating YouTube’s Terms of Service” less than two weeks after it was posted.
The episode featuring Jones, the founder and host of Infowars, was posted on March 9 and had racked up over two million views in the nine days it was online, making it the most popular video on the Flagrant 2 YouTube channel by far.
The Jones episode was almost three hours long and during the podcast he discussed coronavirus vaccines, Bohemian Grove (an exclusive private club where some of the world’s most powerful men meet each year), cryptocurrency, time space aliens, and more.
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Denied: Delivering Pizza to a Quarantine Hotel
The Hilton Toronto Airport Hotel & Suites is the latest Toronto area property to devolve into one of Justin Trudeau’s gross quarantine hotels. And if you thought the Hilton name stood for upper-niche accommodation, just wait until you hear the story of “John” (not his real name).
John, a Canadian citizen, recently flew back to the United States from Dubai. Before leaving Dubai, he took a PCR test as mandated. Once in the U.S., he walked over the Peace Bridge at Niagara Falls, which spans New York state and the province of Ontario. Because he wasn’t arriving into Canada from an international destination via air, John was supposed to be exempt from staying at a quarantine hotel, and would be able to quarantine for 14 days at home. Those are indeed the rules.
But for some baffling reason, the authorities mandated that he had to go to a quarantine hotel. And they also refused to recognize the PCR test he had taken in Dubai. Why? Again, no reasons were provided.
So it was that John was hauled off to the Hilton Toronto Airport. And here’s where things really get rotten. Literally.
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“Kill Them; Kill Them All”: The War Against Police in France
On January 25 in Pantin, a suburb of Paris, on February 4 in Carcassonne in the south of France, and on February 13 in Poissy in Yvelines, organized groups of “young people” — according to the established media vocabulary to avoid any ethnic designation — lured police forces into their neighborhoods to ambush them. To the shouts of “Kill them; kill them all”, police patrols were attacked with explosives and pyrotechnic devices used as urban guerrilla weapons. Each time, videos of the attack were broadcast on social networks.
Between March 17 and May 5, 2020, French police were subjected to 79 ambushes, based on statistics from the Ministry of the Interior published by Le Figaro. In October 2020, Le Figaro counted at least ten attacks on police precincts since the beginning of the year, and more than 85 incidents of “violence against persons in positions of public authority” were recorded daily throughout the country by the national police, according to Le Monde. In January, the statistical services of the Ministry of the Interior recorded 2,288 such “kill them all” incidents, based on information from police reports.
A war is being waged against the police in France, but this war is never named.
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Arson Attack at Greek Catholic Church in Budapest Suburb
Earlier this week, a Greek Catholic church in the Budapest suburban area of Gödöllo was subject to an arson attack, causing several million forints in material damages, but injuring no one, Hungarian news portal Vasarnap reports.
According to the portal’s sources, the perpetrators set fire to the church benches and also sprinkled the iconostasis with flammable material.
Speaking to vasarnap.hu over the telephone, local priest Janos Sivadó confirmed the attack occurred, saying a fire broke out in the church a few minutes after 8:00 p.m. on Monday, and the attack also had an eyewitness. The perpetrator fled the scene after incurring damage with several million forints. The pastor emphasized that the attack was an “anti-Christian act”.
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EU Sends Czechia €1 Billion From Employment Support Program
On Tuesday, the European Commission paid the Czech Republic €1 billion from the European Union’s “Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency” (SURE) program. The Commission added that this is Czechia’s first loan from this program.
The European Commission released €9 billion in loans to seven EU member states under the SURE program yesterday. In addition to the Czech Republic, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, and Slovakia also received the money. However, these six countries have already obtained financial aid from the program before.
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Finland Catches China Trying to Spy on National Parliament
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s domestic security agency said Thursday that the cybergroup APT31, which is generally linked to the Chinese government, was likely behind a cyberspying attack on the information systems of the Nordic country’s parliament.
The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service, known by the abbreviation Supo, said it had “identified a cyber espionage operation targeted in 2020 against parliament with the aim of intruding into parliament’s IT systems.”
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In the EU, Digital Vaccine Passports to Allow Freedom Seem Inevitable
The EU has proposed the adoption of digital COVID-19 certificates, which it says would allow EU citizens who have been vaccinated to resume normal life and international travel. The proposal is an effort to revive the tourism industry.
According to a draft plan obtained by The Financial Times, the EU is preparing to introduce the so-called digital vaccine passports. These apps would allow people who have been vaccinated, recently tested negative, or those who have recovered to move around freely.
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Around €1 million in Covid-19 relief funds aimed at businesses might have ended up in the pockets of hardline Islamists, German media reported, citing sources in the Berlin police who opened more than 100 probes into the fraud.
The misuse of coronavirus aid to finance terrorist activities was reported by German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
“In individual cases there is a suspicion of direct terrorism financing,” a source within Berlin law enforcement told the newspaper.
According to the report, law enforcement in Germany’s capital is currently conducting over 100 investigations into potential misuse of coronavirus aid for terrorism funding. Some 60 individuals, as well as mosques and other Muslim associations, are being targeted by the inquiries.
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Netherlands Changes Rules Mid-Election to Allow Rejected Postal Votes
The Netherlands has changed its postal voting system mid-election, which could result in thousands of votes previously considered invalid to be counted.
Dutch Interior Minister Kajsa Ollongren announced the changes this week after it emerged that as many as five to ten per cent of the postal votes cast appeared to have errors making them invalid. In previous elections, the total number of rejected votes is usually around 0.3 per cent.
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Ousting Fidesz From the EPP Wasn’t a Smart Move — Interview With Prof. Werner Patzelt
No one benefits from the Fidesz-People’s Party breakup, nor should the Hungarian government expect improved relations from a possible future CDU-Greens coalition; the best thing they can do now is to keep their policy sound, says German political scientist Werner Patzelt, who was asked about German domestic politics and German-Hungarian relations.
Werner J. Patzelt (born in 1953 in Passau) is a German political scientist and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Dresden. He was a co-founder of Dresden University’s institute of political science in 1991, where he taught until his retirement in 2019, which was partly politically motivated. He graduated in political science, sociology and history in 1980 from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, after which he received his doctorate and habilitation at the University of Passau. He has been a visiting professor in Paris, London and Moscow and at several events of the International Federation of Political Science (IPSA), as well as a member of the executive committee of this prestigious professional organization from 2009 to 2015. He has been a member and periodic adviser of CDU since 1994, as well as the party’s deputy campaign chief in the 2019 Saxony state elections. He is a sought-after expert who is very active in the German media.
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Over 200 Suspects Named in Massive Child Sex Abuse Scandal in German Diocese
A German law firm published an independent report Thursday following accusations of efforts to cover up sexual violence in Germany’s most powerful Roman Catholic diocese, Cologne.
The report identified around 243 abusers of minors — priests or laypeople working for the church — and at least 386 victims between 1946 and 2018, but some of these did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Cologne diocese.
Some 55% of cases referred to children under the age of 14 and around half dealt with sexual violence. The rest of the cases had to do with verbal or physical abuse.
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Poland to Enter Another Lockdown
Starting March 20 and lasting until April 9, new restrictions will be imposed throughout all of Poland due to the worsening pandemic situation and third coronavirus wave.
During the new lockdown period, all hotels, ski resorts, theaters, museums, art galleries, cinemas, swimming pools, saunas, gyms, sports centers (excluding professionals) and shopping malls (excluding grocery stores, pharmacies and drugstores) will be closed.
All students in Poland, including the youngest primary school children, will be having their lessons conducted online.
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Salvini Party MEP Denounces EU Glossary That Bans ‘Mother’ And ‘Father’
Simona Baldassarre, a Member of the European Parliament for Matteo Salvini’s League, has denounced a new glossary from the European Union that allegedly directs members to stop saying terms like “mother” and “father”.
Baldassarre spoke out against the EU suggestions for what language should be used in internal and external communications, such as refraining from using the terms “mother and “father” but using instead “parents”.
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In a recent article, British conservative daily The Telegraph has confronted EU leaders with serious facts: Hungary, Austria, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia have broken with the EU’s unified vaccine strategy, and that is big news.
Brussels is heavily criticized for failing to procure vaccines, and Austria and Denmark — as well as Hungary and the Czech Republic since the article was published — are negotiating with Israel, while many Central and Eastern European countries are also turning to China and Russia for vaccines. According to the author, all this shows that Europe is starting to become geopolitically irrelevant.
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Under fire, Twitter reversed the suspension and claimed it was a “mistake.” Have you ever noticed that all these “mistakes” go in the same direction? Twitter never bans leftists or Islamic supremacists by “mistake,” and deranged, hate-filled fascists such as Reza Aslan are free to spew threats of violence with impunity.
“Twitter under fire after suspending account of French teen targeted for Islam comments,” EuroNews, March 15, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace).
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UK: BBC News Presenters Snigger & Insult Union Jack Flag During Interview
BBC News presenters sniggered and insulted an MP because he had a Union Jack flag and a picture of the Queen behind him during an interview.
MP Robert Jenrick appeared on BBC Breakfast to discuss the vaccine rollout but at the end of the interview, presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty turned their attention to the iconic British flag.
“I think your flag is not up to standard size government interview…measurements, I think it’s just a little bit small. But that’s your department really!” said Stayt.
Munchetty, who recently wrote an article for the BBC titled ‘It’s time to talk about race’, began laughing before commenting, “The picture of the queen though.”
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UK: Boris Govt: Misogyny to be Recorded as a Hate Crime From Autumn
Police will begin recording offences believed to be motivated by misogyny as hate crimes in the wake of Sarah Everard’s apparent murder, Boris Johnson’s government has confirmed.
Speaking for the Johnson administration in the House of Lords, Home Office junior minister the Baroness Williams of Trafford said that from the autumn of 2021, “we will ask police forces to record and identify any crimes of violence against the person, including stalking and harassment and sexual offences, where the victim perceives it to have been motivated by a hostility based on their sex, which, as I have said, can then inform longer-term decisions.”
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The UK’s policing minister has suggested that schools should teach boys how to treat women in public, as feminists and far-leftists continue to hijack the tragic death of Sarah Everard to advance an anti-male agenda.
Minister of State for Crime and Policing Kit Malthouse had told The Times that PSHE (personal, social, and health education) classes might need to contain components on “the way people are treated in the street and the way women and girls are contemplated in the public realm”, appearing to suggest that boys and men fundamentally lack respect for women.
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Israel Passes Law to Mandate ‘Freedom’ Tracking Bracelets
Israeli lawmakers have passed legislation that could see the government make it mandatory for all citizens entering the country to wear a tracking device.
The law says that Israelis returning to the country who have not had a vaccine can isolate at home so long as they accept a ‘freedom bracelet’, a GPS device that will track their every movement to ensure they do not break quarantine rules.
Anyone who hasn’t had a shot, or already had coronavirus and subsequently twice tested negative, and does not accept the tracking bracelet will be forced to undergo quarantine in a military manned facility.
The devices were recently trialled on citizens returning through Ben Gurion Airport close to Tel Aviv.
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Reports of More American Troops Entering Syria — What is Biden Doing and Does He Know He’s Doing it?
A US convoy of trucks is entering Northern Syria per reports from that country. Why is senile old Biden doing this and why is he keeping it a secret? Does he even know it’s happening?
During President Trump’s time in office, ISIS was obliterated in the Middle East. That evil group was annihilated in a matter of months after festering and growing during the Obama years. ISIS’s leader was killed in an operation named after an American girl whom he raped repeatedly and daily for months.
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Putin Responds to Biden’s “Killer” Comment, Says Biden is Describing Himself
Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to President Joe Biden’s accusation that he is a “killer” on Thursday, turning the label back around on the U.S. president.
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Ban on Afghan Girls Singing National Anthem in Public Draws Backlash
ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Education Ministry is facing fierce criticism for banning girls over 12 years of age from singing the national anthem in mixed gender gatherings.
The order, dated March 6, came to light Wednesday when someone took a picture of the notice circulated to educational institutions and posted it on social media.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), the nations official human rights body, called it a violation of children’s rights, the constitution, and international conventions.
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Bangladesh: Hefazat-E-Islam Followers Attack Hindu Houses in Sunamganj
According to the police, 70-80 houses were vandalized in the incident
Thousands of Hefazat-e-Islam supporters attacked a Hindu village in Shalla upazila of Sunamganj on Wednesday morning.
The indecent happened after Hefazat-e-Islam’s Amir Allama Junaid Babunagari, Joint-Secretary General Mawlana Mufti Mamunul Haque and several other central leaders attended a conference at Derai upazila on Monday.
Enraged by Mawlana Mamunul Haque’s speech at the conference, a young Hindu man from Noagaon, Shalla upazila allegedly made a Facebook post criticizing Mamunul, who opposed the sculpture of Bangabandhu on Tuesday. Hearing of this, the mob with makeshift weapons attacked the village on Wednesday.
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Hefajat Followers Attack, Vandalise Hindu Houses in Sunamganj: Bangladesh Police
A Hindu youth criticized Hefazat leader in Facebook. Hence, Hefazat-e-Islam followers barbarically attack Hindu houses in Sunamganj.
Serajul Islam | Dhaka Tribue | Sunamganj | March 27, 2021:: Thousands of Hefazat-e-Islam supporters attacked a Hindu village in Shalla upazila of Sunamganj on Wednesday morning.
The indecent happened after Hefazat-e-Islam’s Amir Allama Junaid Babunagari, Joint-Secretary General Mawlana Mufti Mamunul Haque and several other central leaders attended a conference at Derai upazila on Monday.
Enraged by Mawlana Mamunul Haque’s speech at the conference, a young Hindu man from Noagaon, Shalla upazila allegedly made a Facebook post criticizing Mamunul, who opposed the sculpture of Bangabandhu on Tuesday. Hearing of this, the mob with makeshift weapons attacked the village on Wednesday.
Hefazat leaders in the area had already staged a protest on Tuesday night, accusing the incident of inciting religious violence.
To bring the situation under control, the police arrested the youth the same night.
However, several thousand followers of Hefazat leader Mamunul Haque from Kashipur, Nachni, Chandipur and some other Muslim-populated villages gathered in Noagaon village at around 9am on Wednesday and attacked the homes of local Hindus…
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Malaysia: Police Investigating Video of Woman Threatening to ‘Destroy’ Christians Over ‘Allah’
The police are investigating a video of a woman who had threatened to “destroy” Christians in response to the high court’s ruling that allowed non-Muslims to use the word “Allah” in religious publications.
Huzir Mohamad from the Federal Criminal Investigation Department told reporters yesterday that they plan to summon the woman, known only as Puteri Mujahidah Wan Asshima Kamaruddin on Facebook, for questioning soon. The woman uploaded her 12-minute hate rant on Thursday to over 650,000 views and 8,000 shares, drawing mixed reactions from supporters and critics.
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Pakistan Observes ‘Int’l Day to Combat Islamophobia’
Pakistan on Monday joined the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to observe for the first time the “International Day to Combat Islamophobia,” the Foreign Ministry said.
In a statement, the ministry said the OIC’s unanimous support for the designation of this day is a reflection of the sentiments of billions of Muslims around the world.
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Sri Lanka Catholics Mark ‘Black Sunday’ For Easter Victims
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan Roman Catholics attended Mass dressed in black on Sunday, with prayers and protests calling for justice for those killed in coordinated suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday two years ago.
Church bells tolled and prayers were chanted at 8:45 a.m., the time when bombs were detonated almost simultaneously at two Roman Catholic churches and a Protestant church during Easter services on April 21, 2019. Bombs were also set off at three top hotels targeting locals and foreigners who were eating breakfast.
More than 260 people, including 171 from the two Catholic churches, were killed in the attacks, which were blamed on two local Islamic extremist groups that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
[Comment: Article dated March 7, 2021.]
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Two young Melbourne men suspected of having religious extremist motivations are facing terrorism charges over a fire and assault.
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Many Dead in Suspected ADF Militia Attack in East Democratic Republic of the Congo
Witnesses and a conflict monitor confirm there are at least 12 dead in the attack, blaming it on the Allied Democratic Forces, which has the reputation of being the bloodiest of the 122 militias which plague the eastern DRC.
At least 15 civilians have been massacred overnight in eastern DR Congo, a monitoring group in the region said, adding the notorious ADF militia were suspected.
“At least 15 civilians were killed last night in Bulongo (Beni territory, North Kivu). The ADF are suspects,” the Kivu Security Tracker (KST) group posted on Twitter on Monday.
The Allied Democratic Forces is historically a Ugandan Islamist group that has holed up in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since 1995.
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Tanzanian President Who Was Skeptical of Western Vaccines Dead After Missing for Two Weeks
It is being reported today that Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, has died after being missing for more than two weeks.
The President’s death was announced today by the country’s vice-president Samia Suluhu, who said the president died of heart failure. He was 61.
About two weeks ago Health Impact News published an article that was written by Rishma Parpia of The Vaccine Reaction reporting that both President John Magufuli, and his health minister, Dorothy Gwajima, had announced that their country has no plans in place to recommend widespread use of COVID-19 vaccines in the African country…
Last summer Pierre Nkurunziza, the President of Burundi, refused to play along with Covid and instructed the WHO delegation to leave his country…before dying suddenly of a “heart attack” or “suspected Covid19”. His successor immediately reversed every single one of his Covid policies, including inviting the WHO back to the country.
That was our first Covid coup, and it looks like Tanzania could well be next.
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Breaking: Here Are the 9 Republicans Who Voted to Pass Total ‘Dreamer’ Amnesty for Illegal Migrants
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the Dream and Promise Act, which grants total amnesty to illegal immigrants who entered the country while under the age of 18, by a margin of 228-197 on Thursday. A total of nine Republicans sided with Democrats to pass the bill, which is now headed to the U.S. Senate.
The full list of Republican lawmakers who voted to approve the Dream and Amnesty Act can be read below:
- Don Bacon (NE)
- David Valadao (CA)
- Fred Upton (MI)
- Maria Elvira Salazar (FL)
- Dan Newhouse (WA)
- Brian Fitzpatrick (PA)
- Chris Smith (NJ)
- Carlos Gimenez (FL)
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Immigration is an Act of War: With Violence Delayed
In February 2020, the U.S. Border Patrol calculated 9,000 people crossed America’s southern border under the Trump administration, illegally. In February 2021, the USBP calculated 104,000 people crossed illegally. All of them echoed Joe Biden’s welcoming speech of amnesty and open borders.
“United States law enforcement agents encountered more than 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, which is the highest monthly total since a historic surge in mid-2019 and evidence of a mounting crisis, despite the current administration’s hesitancy to characterize it as such.” (Source: Forbes, March 10, 2021, “More than 100,000 migrants entered the US illegal in February,” Tommy Beer, Forbes staff writer.)
I have visited the border six times in the past 20 years from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, I witnessed enormous tons of trash, hundreds of ‘lay-up’ areas, stench, garbage, human waste and mountains of plastic containers. My latest trip in 2019 blew my mind as to the ongoing destruction of our desert environment. If war was declared, our southern border would be called the “Battle of the Bulge.” And, we’re losing!
Biden exacerbated human trafficking, child abuse, desperate refugees, Covid 19 disease being spread into our country, countless rapes, terrorists, brutality and death from encouraging mass migration out of Central America and Mexico.
I spent time with Dale Seale who said, “Biden ended “safe third country agreements” that the US once had with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. That means that migrants moving north without visas will no longer have to apply for asylum in the country they come from. They can come directly to our country no questions asked.
“Once they’re in the United States, they can qualify for free healthcare, free education, taxpayer stimulus checks, drivers’ licenses, and ultimately citizenship. They will not be deported, and they know it.
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In Just 1 of 20 Sectors, Nearly 50,000 Tried to Cross Illegally Since Biden Took Office
The March 17th press release buries the bombshell statistic in a report focusing on “large groups” of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. in Hidalgo County, Texas.
“In the month of February, agents in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector apprehended 16,583 Family Units and 11,242 UAC. This has marked an increase of over 100% in both categories. This year, RGV agents have encountered 19 groups of 100 or more people illegally entering the United States,” Customs and Border Protection notes.
The presence of over 11,000 UAC — or “Unaccompanied Alien Children” — and over 16,5000 multi-person family units, therefore, occurred in the first full month of Joe Biden’s presidency.
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Italy: More Details Emerge About NGOs Accused of Collaborating With Human Smugglers
The Italian judiciary has accused three NGOs that help to rescue refugees at the sea of cooperating with people’s smugglers from Libya. According to investigators, 21 employees of Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Jugend Rettet have long communicated with smugglers and coordinated the departure and rescue of small overcrowded migrant boats.
The Le Temps daily reported on the investigation.
According to the Italian police, cooperation in 12 rescue operations took place from spring to autumn 2017. A large part of the evidence was obtained by a police officer who infiltrated the workers of the Vos Hestia rescue ship of the Save the Children organization and filmed the joint action of smugglers and rescuers. Police also used wiretaps and seized material from confiscated computers and telephones during the final raid. The final police report 651-pages long and accuses 21 people of “circumventing the rescue system set up by the Italian authorities” and of cooperating with human smugglers.
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Nigerian Migrant Arrested for Kidnapping, Sexually Assaulting Disabled Child in France
French police have arrested a Nigerian ‘asylum seeker’ in the kidnapping and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl, according to reports.
The child, who is mentally disabled, went missing after going for a walk in the town of Roanne on Sunday morning.
Her parents reported her disappearance to local police, who attempted to track her down by locating her cell phone, which had been turned off.
After reviewing surveillance footage, authorities determined the girl had been seen talking to young African male before walking with him over a bridge leading towards a nearby town.
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NASSAU COUNTY, NY— According to reports, 23-year-old Christian Rodriguez, an illegal immigrant and MS-13 gang member, has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of a 19-year-old.
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Stephen Miller — Border Agents Are Releasing ALL Who Swarm Our Borders. We Have No Border!
Former senior Trump adviser says border situation ‘exponentially worse than anyone realizes’ on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
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UK Could Follow Australia’s Lead and Hold Asylum Seekers Overseas for Processing: Report
The United Kingdom could adopt an Australia-style asylum system of holding migrants overseas while processing their claims in an effort to deter illegal migration.
Home Secretary Priti Patel, the government minister in charge of borders, is set to reveal plans next week for the reforming of Britain’s immigration system, and it will include consultation plans on changing the law, making it possible to send asylum seekers to third countries while their claims are processed.
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Video: Reporters Demand to Know Why They Have Zero Access to Border Crisis
As the immigration crisis on the border worsens every day, reporters demanded Wednesday to know why they have not been given any access to facilities housing migrants, and why border officials have effectively been placed under a gag order, as reported by NBC News.
During the White House press briefing, Jen Psaki was grilled by reporter after reporter on why an administration that promised transparency is doing the exact opposite.
“It’s now been three weeks since I think in this room, you were first asked about getting us some press access. Why [have] we still not [seen] any images inside these facilities?” one reporter asked.
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Biological Male Crowned Miss Silver State USA
Kataluna Enriquez, a biological male who identifies as a woman, has been crowned Miss Silver State USA, which is described as the “biggest preliminary competition for the Miss Nevada USA pageant.”
Enriquez bested the biological females in the competition, putting him in the position to compete for the state’s competition, Miss Nevada USA, with hopes of competing in the bigger contests, Miss USA and Miss Universe.
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A Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city’s drag queen story hour program, has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.
Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik.
Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.
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Dr. Michelle Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, is sounding alarm bells about the fact that, if passed, the Equality Act would punish medical doctors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who do not go along with a confused minor’s “gender identity.”
The scary part of this is that those who are prescribed cross-sex hormones following puberty-blocking drugs could end up going through a premature menopause or andropause and all the ailments that come with it.
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Father of Trans Child Jailed for Speaking Out Against Gender Transition
“Does Mr. Eby think by putting C.D. in prison, my client’s conscience will shrivel up like the testosterone poisoned eggs in his now sterile 15-year-old child?”
That was the question posed to Justice Michael Tammen by lawyer Carey Linde, after it became clear to everyone in the courtroom that Crown prosecutor Eby was seeking the imprisonment of Linde’s client, a B.C. father whose legal troubles began when he tried to prevent his child from taking life-altering hormone treatment without his consent. He has since been trying to warn Canadian parents about how powerless he has been in doing so.
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Former Head of Group That Sponsors Drag Queen Story Hour Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
The former head of the Cream City Foundation, which sponsors Drag Queen Story Hour in Milwaukee, has been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Brett Blomme was taken into custody by special agents “following an investigation into multiple uploads of child pornography through a Kik messaging application account in October and November 2020,” according to a statement.
38-year-old Blomme had uploaded 27 videos and images containing child pornography, including two files that were uploaded at the Milwaukee County government building.
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Marvel Unveils First LGBT Captain America
Marvel Comics has unveiled its first LGBT Captain American.
The character, named Aaron Fischer, is part of a limited series titled “The United States of Captain America,” which follows Steve Rogers teaming up with other Captain America heroes across the country. The series is written by Christopher Cantwell and illustrated by Dale Eaglesham.
Fischer was described by the studio as “the Captain America of the Railways — a fearless teen who stepped up to protect fellow runaways and the unhoused.” He is also a gay teen.
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‘Parents and Father-Man and Mother-Woman’ — Slovak MPs Try to Define Parents in Constitution
On Wednesday, MP Marian Kotleba unsuccessfully tried to add a sentence to the Slovak constitution stating that parents are defined as a father-man and mother-woman. However, only 26 deputies of Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO) and We Are Family (Sme Rodina) supported his proposal.
Kotleba also wanted to make it impossible for transgender people to change their gender by amending the constitution. In the end, the proposal did not pass, with 44 members out of 93 voting in favor.
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Professors Call for Abolishing Physics Term ‘Quantum Supremacy’ To Fight Racism
Two professors are calling for abolishing the physics term “quantum supremacy” because it is “uncomfortably reminiscent of ‘white supremacy.’“
In an op-ed, titled, “Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things” for the Scientific American, St. Anselm College physics professor Ian Durham, University of Bristol math professor Karoline Wiesner, and freelance journalist Daniel Garisto call for doing away with the physics term “quantum supremacy” in an anti-racist measure.
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